The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-03-04
vANpERRILTs MEM YAcnI.
Description Of the Queen OF h
Pleasure Navy.

new steel steam yacht, will be deliver.
ed to her owner in New York to-mor-
row, writes a Wilmington. (Del.) cor,
respondent of The RcW York Times.
under date of Feb 2. Three hundred
workmen have been swarming over the
vessel to-day clearing and cleaning the
boat in readiness for her departure.
She will sail from here at 6 o'clock to-
morrow morning, and il is expected
will reach New York early in the even
ing. A number of New York and sew
eral English yachtsmen have inspected
the Alya during the past few days aud
all pronounce her by odds the hand
soonest and most magnificently ap.
pointed pleasure craft afioat. Her
builders have had carte blanche in the
matter of construction, and were in
structed to eclipse any previous ut.
tempts at mar ne construction in the
world, regardless of expense. In as
far as workmanship goes. she is a
mechanical beauty. The Alva is 285
teet over all and 252 feet at load-line,
32 feet 3 inches beam. and 81 feet
s inches in depth. She will draw
IL feet of water when in cargo.
The hull of the Alya is built Of
the finest quality, low grade, open.
hearth, mild steel, and is given the
highest classification in Lloyds. She
is schooner-rigged, with three masts,
square forward, having three yards on
her foremost and three jibs. Her rig
gIng is jauntily rakish, and with sail
set she is a sight which delights the
eyes of all who have beheld her in her
suit Of white. Electric lamps, supplied
by a dynamo in the engine-room, are
profusely placed aboard the boat and
illuminate her as bright as day. At
peak she carries a powerful halfern
light that penetrates the darkness with
its rays to a distance of eight miles.
The propelling force is furnished by a
three-cylinder compound-direct acting
engine, with a high-pressure cylinder
IF thirty-two inches and two low-pres-
sure cylinders of forty-fige inches, all
having a forty-two inch stroke. Her
boilers, two in number. are eleven feet
long and seventeen feet in diameter,
and have withstood a pressure of two
hundred pounds to the square inch,
The propeller wheel is a thing of ex
quisire beauty in the eyes of ship-bu Id
ers. 1t is a solid piece of manganese
bronze, weighing five tons. and abso-
lutely fiawless. Her dining saloon is
paneled in soft wood, with white
enamel and gold, and is eigAteen feet
in length.
The owners private quarters consist
of nine apartments, besides a nursery,
and are finished in white an gold, each
supplied with a different variety Of
hardwood furniture. In the floor OF
each room there is a bath-tub, with
secret cover, supplied with hot and cold
water, which may be taken either from
the sea or fresh-water tanks. The
library is sixteen by eighteen feet, and
is paneled in French walnut. There are
also seven large state-rooms, all finish.
ed in white and gold and provided with
bath-tubs for the use Of gaests. The
Alya is undoubtedly the queen of the
pleasure navy of the world, and in
point of msgniicence and luxurious
ness of appointments nothing has ever
approached her. While built for sea
service her speed has not been lost
sight Of. and she viii cut the pillows at
a 15-knot gait constantly without a
strain. She is provided with four water.
tight bulkhead compartments, and an
equipment of safety appliances which
will challenge disaster.
The Alya will make q trial trip to the
the Bermuda islands, where MI. Van
derbilt owns a large estate. after which
the millionaire owner and his family,
it is said, will make an extended trip
around the globe, occupying four or
five years. The Alya will be com
manded by Capt. Morrison, formerly
master of the American Lire steamer
Ohio. J. L. Gushing will act as chief
office, and James Hand. formerly
special United States inspector of steam
vessels, as chief engineer.
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